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Dr Dhiraj Saini

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Dr Dhiraj Saini

Professional membershipsRACP
SpecialtyGeriatric Medicine
Clinical Interests

General physician, geriatrician, internal medicine, falls assessment, delirium, dementia

Biography

Dr Dhiraj Saini is a Specialist Geriatrician based at both Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton and Rockhampton Base Hospital.

Dr Saini runs a Memory Clinic, General Geriatric Clinic, Frailty Clinic and Parkinson's Clinic from Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton.

He is experienced in rehabilitation medicine and has vast amount of experience in internal medicine, especially in chronic medical conditions and acute care, acute and community geriatric rehabilitation, falls assessment, bone health in the elderly, delirium and dementia.

Dr Saini has worked as a staff specialist geriatrician at Gosford Hospital and as a geriatric registrar at the Department of Geriatrics, Wyong Hospital. He has also worked as a medical registrar for John Hunter Hospital, Calvary Mater Hospital, Maitland Hospital and Wyong Hospital.

Prior to coming to Australia, Dr Saini worked as a medical registrar in Malaysia for seven years while pursuing his MRCP from the UK and then in one of the busiest private hospitals in Kuala Lumpur as a physician and geriatrician (Malaysia) for which he was responsible for inpatient care of adults and elderly patients, setting up geriatric care protocols for the hospital, nursing education and policy planning.

Dr Saini also takes referrals for inpatient geriatric rehabilitation, including falls assessments, orthogeriatric rehabilitation (post fracture and post orthopaedic surgery) and post acute medical episode rehabilitation in the elderly. He also does cognitive assessment for the elderly inpatients.

Please click here for the rehabilitation referral form.

Qualifications
  • MBBS
  • MRCP (UK)
  • Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
  • FRCP (Edinburgh)
     
Practice location
Mater Specialist Outpatients Centre, Rockhampton, Suite 13 46 Jessie StreetRockhampton4701 QLD